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I MET A THIEF BY DAVID RUBADIR POEM ANALYSIS AND REVIEW

The poem has deeper meaning that transcends love and lust. It speaks of the nature of being in which the individual is self-absorbed in transitional pleasures believing they will become permanent. The poem is about a man taking a siesta on the coastal beach when he meets a woman. According to the man, the woman sees that he has an innocent heart which can easily be stolen. Therefore, the woman cultivates in the man a desire that he cannot refuse. The man becomes defenseless by her unwitting charm and her unmatched beauty. In the end, the woman lives without satisfying the man’s desire. Photo courtesy of meta AI In this poem, we see the man as a victim of unrequited love. He had believed in the friendliness of the woman and in the hope that he was investing in something he could treasure for the rest of his life. Therefore, the woman leaving, becomes a serious betrayal given that she had reignited in the man a fire that she only could extinguish. As readers/listeners, we sympathi...

UNDERSTANDING POETRY FOR KENYAN SYLABUS

Understanding poetry Performance poetry is easier to follow since you can hear and feel what the poet is trying to communicate. Most often, we follow the non-verbal cues and facial expressions to understand pretty much everything. This is the reason why we get to understand a foreign language without having no knowledge of it. Poetry is a performance craft. For this reason, in order to grasp it well, one must see its performance to grasp in detail what the performer is trying to pass across. Nevertheless, the exam situation eradicates the need to listen and delves into your own knowledge of poetry. In order to answer poetry questions well, you ought to do the following: a) Have a little knowledge about the poet. b) Understand the styles the poet has used to create music in the poem c) Identify the styles the poet has used to bring out the meaning of the poem d) Try to interpret the poet’s choice of words . Getting to know the poet Poetry is like music. In music ...

Blossoms of the Savannah as a reflection of the modern day woman

A literary look at the modern day woman as portrayed in H.R Kulet book. Blossoms of the Savannah is a book written by the late H.R Kulet in the early 2000s. The story in the book is set in the mid-90s- a period marked with inflation in Kenya which prompted massive layoffs of civil servants called retrenchment and privatization of key government institutions. This was also a period of political change in Kenya with the birth of multiparty politics and also the onset of gender equality debate in the country. With vocal female leaders like the Late Wangari Maathai, Charity Kaluki Ngilu among others joining politics, there was a lot of enthusiasm in Kenya about the impending change. Kulet chose to dwell on the social cultural change brought about with education of the girl child and how this was effecting change in communities that were consertive. Key among the issues he sought to address were the retrogressive cultural practices that targeted a specific gender and how greed and lust ...

RUNNING AWAY FROM CULTURE IN BLOSSOMS OF THE SAVANNAH

One cannot run away from their culture; what they can do is work towards changing it. Drawing from the book Blossoms of the Savannah, discuss. One cannot run away from their culture; what they can do is work towards changing it. This is evident in the novel Blossoms of the Savannah by H.R. Kulet. According to the novel, Parsimei Ole kaelo brought up his children in the confines of the city of Nakuru away from the culture of Nasila. In Nakuru, Kaelo was comfortable to be a monogamous with two daughters. Even though his brother had advised him to stick to Nasila culture and obey its tenets, Kaelo dismissed them. He was a happy successful man doing well as a career man. In Nakuru he could model his daughters to modern women with careers- probably the reason he moved to the town in the fast place. By moving to Nakuru, Kaelo was in a way running away from the cruel Nasila culture. He was a man with an outside view of his culture. He wished th...

OLE KAELO'S ACTS OF COWARDICE IN BLOSSOMS OF THE SAVANNAH

The book Blossoms of the Savannah presents Ole Kaelo as behaving in a cowardly manner. This essay observes Kaelo’s acts of cowardice and how they shape the trajectory of the story. Kaelo is one of the main characters in the book. He is the father of Taiyo and Resian. Kaelo’s decisions make the story’s conflict skyrocket into a struggle for the rights of the girl child. Generally, we pick up Kaelo from the moment he retired. However, it should be noted that Kaelo’s confidence begun the moment he moved to Nakuru. With a lucrative job and a lean family, Kaelo displayed a confidence never seen before. In the comfort of Nakuru, he defended his decision to remain monogamous and delineate himself from the barbaric female circumcision for his two daughters. The security of employment in the sprawling Nakuru city offered Kaelo enough confidence to denounce culture and call Nasila elders as ‘megalomaniacs who were stuck in the past. In Nakuru, Kaelo found a safe haven in which to abhor and...

THE PEARL: LISTENING TO ADVICE

“ When one fails to heed advice, they suffer.” With illustrations from John Steibeck’s The Pearl, write an essay to validate the above statement. Sometimes it is important to heed advice from those around us. Even though we may think that we are right, the advice given may go a long way in helping us. According to the play, The Pearl, Kino did not heed to the advice of others and this led to disastrous outcome. Kino comes out as a proud masculine man. It is for this reason that Kino does not want to listen to his wife. When Juana proffers an advice, Kino does not give it so much thought. He assures her that he is a man and he knows what he is doing. For instance, Juana observes that the Pearl they had found from the sea will bring evil to their family. While Kino can see the evil lurking in the darkness, he does not want to let go of his treasure. Juan Thomas seems to know Kino well. As an elder brother, he keenly walks Kino into the history of their people and how they ha...